Himanshi Shelat

She received Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati in 1996 for her short stories collection Andhari Galima Safed Tapakan (1992).

[2] She wrote her first story Saat Pagathiya Andhara Koovama in 1978 and published in Navneet, a Gujarati magazine.

[1][2] Antaral, her first anthology of short stories, published in 1987 was followed by, Andhari Galima Safed Tapaka (1992), Ae Loko (1997), Sanjno Samay (2002), Panchavayka (2002), Khandaniyama Mathu (2004) and Garbhagatha (2009).

Aathamo Rang (2001), Kyarima Aakash Pushpa ane Kala Patangiya (2006) and Saptadhara (2012) are three of her novels while Ekadani Chaklio (2004) and Dabe Hathe (2012) are her collections of essays.

[1] She received Sahitya Akadami Award for Gujarati in 1996 for her short story collection Andhari Galima Safed Tapakan (1992).